| Summary: | The reading of the notaries suggests brave figures of Jewish women lenders on credit alongside their husbands or brothers, when they are widows and guardians of their children and sometimes in complete independence of an active husband. But superimposing the study of judicial sources to these notary sources helps to better assess these women, able to maintain the process or to obtain peace. Jewish matriarchs who defend their credit and that of their family, then attack and are attacked in court. Women, like their colleagues, their husbands or their fathers, bring to justice those who have not respected their commitments. The analysis needs to be nuanced given the place of women in credit-related sources that refer to a settled conflict by engaging in a legal process and the position of these women in the judicial process and in a timeline longer than the trial.
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